Written Question
Thursday 12th March 2020
Asked by:
Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she has taken to ensure official development assistance supports renewable energy projects.
Answered by James Duddridge
The UK is committed to unlocking affordable and clean energy and contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7. UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) increasingly supports renewable energy projects – between 2011-12 and 2018-19 UK aid has provided 26 million people with improved access to clean energy and installed 1,600 MW of clean energy capacity, avoiding 16 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
DFID supports a number of ongoing programmes with a clean energy focus, such as the Africa Clean Energy programme, which works in over 15 African countries to increase deployment of off-grid renewable energy, by supporting businesses and governments to improve market conditions for the private sector.
The doubling of the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) contribution to £11.6 billion from 2021/22 to 2025/26 will enable the UK to do even more to accelerate the development and adoption of low carbon technologies.
The ICF increase includes up to £1 billion for the Ayrton Fund, which will focus on developing and testing new technology in areas such as energy storage, new cooling technologies, next generation solar, and technologies for industrial decarbonisation.
As announced by the Prime Minister at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in January, the UK will no longer provide any new direct ODA, investment, export credit or trade promotion support for thermal coal mining or coal power plants overseas.
Written Question
Friday 22nd December 2017
Asked by:
Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures she is taking to promote the adoption of public registers of beneficial ownership in other countries.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Government supports the Open Ownership initiative to establish a global online register of company beneficial ownership and through this supports six countries, including Kenya and Ukraine, to set up their own public registers.
My Department also supports the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to work with 14 DFID partner countries to make public the beneficial owners of companies which win oil, gas and mining contracts, by 2020.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"Q9. The First Secretary said the other day that we needed a national debate on tuition fees, and admitted that student debt was “a huge issue”. Given that the Prime Minister is touting for ideas, may I recommend page 43 of our manifesto, and ask the Government to adopt Labour’s …..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"May I suggest that the Government consult page 43 of our manifesto, and commit themselves to Labour's policy of abolishing tuition fees?..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 13 Jun 2016
Foreign Aid Expenditure
"The hon. Gentleman makes a very powerful point about the environment and natural disasters. Does he agree that in a country such as Bangladesh, which has been ravaged by floods year after year, a strong reason for keeping the 0.7% commitment is that it has particularly helped women? He has …..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"T3. People are fleeing war zones in developing countries across the globe. Will the Government now heed Lord Dubs and Sir Erich Reich, two prominent Kindertransport children, and think again about providing sanctuary for unaccompanied child refugees from Syria?..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Violence against Women and Girls (Sustainable Development Goals)
"I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman’s point that this is not just a DFID issue. These things happen in this country every day. The pressure group End Violence Against Women has pointed out that 146,000 domestic violence incidents were recorded in London in 2015. There were 5,500 rapes, 300 …..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Violence against Women and Girls (Sustainable Development Goals)
"I completely accept the hon. Gentleman’s point. All of us elected officials in this Chamber must be wary of community leaders who command airspace and the ear of officialdom and purport to speak—I say this as, I think, the only elected Muslim woman in the room—for the faith of Islam, …..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Dec 2015
Marriage Registration Certificates
"I congratulate the right hon. Lady on bringing the important subject to the House. On Friday, we debated the Riot (Damages) Act 1886, and some Members here were present. That Act has not been changed since 1886, which is quite recent compared with the legislation that the right hon. Lady …..."Rupa Huq - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Dec 2015
Marriage Registration Certificates
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